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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you to all the helpful posters who responded. You gave me a lot to think about.

Someone suggested moving out of the area; I am actually considering doing that. I know that I don't have the skills for sales (or even working closely with the sales team -- it just didn't jive with my personality, which is why I left product management). Similarly, I have worked for myself as a contractor/consultant, but never made more than I am making right now.

I think if I can cut my living expenses and commuting expenses, I will be ok.

As for those in the same shoes, I completely agree about the lack of knowledge/blind, almost fervent belief in education as the answer -- I genuinely believed that getting the most expensive/prestigious education possible would be my ticket out of poverty. (To the person who asked why I paid for my master's degree: my undergraduate degree -- which I also loaned heavily for -- was in political science, so I didn't really have the option of working a great job at a company right after college that would provide generous tuition reimbursement). I still feel as if investing heavily in education paid off, in a way: I'm not living in poverty like my parents, and I actually make more money than most of my friends from back home. But I'm drowning in debt as a result, so maybe I'll move to a cheaper area. [/quote]

Also a person who came from a poor background here with working poor parents with high school diplomas.  They thought any college degree was the ticket to a good salary and had nothing to teach me about saving for retirement or financial planning.  My dad had a government job with a pension and they didn't use credit cards, know what an IRA was or do anything more complicated than balance a checkbook. We didn't even have a mortgage because my dad saved to buy land and then built a house on it himself.  The whole financial world was scary to them.  In college and grad school I choose poorly paid fields because I enjoyed them and didn't know any better.   Too bad I can't go back in time and choose better--they were other things I enjoyed in school I just wasn't raised to think about career planning. [/quote]

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